Asset Performance Officer
Location – Lismore – Hybrid Working Environment
Employment type – Ongoing full-time (35 hours per week)
Salary – Clerk Grade 5/6 $99,398 - $110,271 plus superannuation and leave loading
Your role
In this role you will undertake and report on field inspection activities/outcomes to scope and monitor the delivery of work and verify contractor compliance with maintenance contract requirements.
What you’ll do
* Deliver timely, accurate and effective scoping of works by adhering to the scoping program.
* Develop, implement and manage a planned maintenance program using Property Assessment Survey (PAS) data and local knowledge for allocated properties.
* Ensure appropriate delivery of works and develop action plans to address work issues when necessary.
* Ensure compliance with Australian Building Codes, Housing Portfolio standards, policies and contract requirements when assigning work to contractors.
* Conduct timely, accurate inspections according to the program and standards, maintaining records of inspections and required actions.
* Build and maintain positive relationships with contractors to facilitate effective inspection and maintenance programs.
* Identify and resolve compliance issues in collaboration with contractors, issuing necessary notices when required.
* Report emerging issues to management and provide recommendations to improve asset program delivery and minimise impacts.
* Managing the challenges of interacting with tenants on a regular basis and balancing tenant issues with the need to meet inspection program requirements.
* Remaining professional, firm and fair, particularly in situations where non-compliance has been identified and conflict is possible.
* Maintaining the necessary balance between field and office work so that field inspections are completed to program and appropriate records are kept up to date.
* Awareness of available budgets and the maintenance requirements of assets when developing the Program of Works for allocated properties.
* Ensuring that all relevant information, including AHO upgrade program implications, contractor capacity and Ministerial imperatives, are taken into account when sequencing Programs of Work.
What we’re looking for
* Sound building experience or exposure, together with experience in contract administration including preparing quotations or estimates.
* Knowledge of Contract requirements, standards and policies together with the capacity to interpret and apply Contract requirements, standards and policies.
* Current working knowledge of the Australian Building Codes.
* Confident in MS Word and Excel with MS Projects.
* Understanding of the Australian Building Codes, Australian Standards, Government or commercial probity and contracting standards.
* Relevant qualification and/or sound construction building maintenance and/or building construction experience/exposure, together with field inspection experience and measurement of performance against standards.
* Current driver’s license.
* Desirable – experience in compliance inspections of building essential services.
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What We Offer
We offer a variety of benefits, including:
* A challenging and rewarding career
* Flexible, autonomous work environment
* Competitive pay and conditions
* Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
* Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
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We do work that really matters
Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.
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Are you ready to join us?
Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).
Applications close Sunday 22nd March 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.
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We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
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